April Club Notes ??

St Fechins

St Fechins Colour Run returns on Easter Sunday! All ages and abilities welcome! Registration at 11am and races begin at 12pm. Family entry is €20, Adults €10 and Juveniles €5.

St Fechins presents Drogheda Male Voice Choir and Special Guests on Thursday 18th May in Kellogg Hall, An Grianán. Tickets €20 are available from Ladies Committee members.

We have a plenty of action on the field this weekend, our Ladies Footballers continue their Division 1 League campaign in Beaulieu on Friday night when they face the Geraldines at 7.30pm. At 8pm our Senior Hurlers will try to guarantee themselves a place in the final of the Colm Geary Cup when the take on Mattock Rangers in Collon. On Saturday our Senior Footballers will finally get the Division 2 League underway against O’Connells in Castlebellingham at 6.30.

Our 2017 Season Ticket is now available. The ticket covers all adult home League and Championship games in Football, Ladies Football and Hurling for only €30. For further information contact Michael on 086850269.

To keep up to date with the latest news from St Fechins follow @stfechins on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit www.stfechins.ie

Naomh Fionnbarra

Played in windy conditions Naomh Fionnbarra were beaten by Dundalk Gaels in the 1st Round of the Paddy Sheelan Shield at John Markey Park on Sunday morning. The Gaels made the brighter start and scored an early goal. The Barrs replied with a Bernard Osborne free. The Dundalk men scored 3 more points while the Finbarrs replied with 4 more frees 2 each from Osborne andPádraic Murphy, the highlight a free from Murphy from wide on the right wing. Half time score: Naomh Fionnbarra 0-5(5) Dundalk Gaels 1-3(6).

Once again the Gaels made the brighter start to the second half and widened their lead. The Togher men to their credit battled hard and hung in the game with more frees from Murphy and Osborne. The Barrs finally got off the mark from play after a good point from Osborne on the turn. The Finbarrs were constantly chasing the game and never got closer than 3 points to the Dundalk men. 3 more Osborne frees finished the scoring for the Togher men. Final score: Naomh Fionnbarra 0-11(11) Dundalk Gaels 1-12(15).

There was no jackpot winner in Naomh Fionnbarra G.F.C. and St. Anne’s Camogie Club Lotto draw held on Wednesday 5th April. The winning numbers were 4, 7, 15 & 20. There were 6 match 3 winners Pat McHale, Maureen Carroll, An Rian, Annagassan, Leah Fairclough, Castle Lane, Heather Harmon, Salterstown, Colm McCullough, Clogherhead and Terry Duffy, Walshestown who won €25 each. Next weeks jackpot stays at €10,000. Tickets are available from the usual local outlets, Lotto sellers and any committee member. Funds raised from our Lotto draw go towards the running of the club and your support is greatly appreciated.

Congratulations to Naomh Fionnbarra’s last man standing champion for 2017 Shane Connor! Entering week 7 of the competition there were 7 contestants remaining and the breakdown of the picks for this week was as follows: Cavan – 3, Clare – 1, Cork – 2, Dublin – 1. Following Roscommon’s victory over Cavan, Cork’s draw with Down, Meath victory over Clare it meant that Dublins victory over Monaghan gave Shane the plaudits for this year’s competition and he is the worthy recipient of our first prize of €200. As 6 people were eliminated together on the last week there will be a draw for 2nd place of €100 later on in the week. Naomh Fionnbarra would like to once again thank everyone who entered the competition and everyone who helped to sell tickets and make the competition a huge success.

Our Intermediate team were beaten 1-12(15) to 0-11(11) by Dundalk Gaels in the Paddy Sheelan Shield Rd 1 at John Markey Park on Sunday morning. The lads have upcoming fixtures scheduled in the Division 2 League v Glen Emmets on Saturday 15th April at 6:30pm in Cusack Park, Tullyallen and v O’Raghallaighs on Sunday 23rd April at 3:00pm in John Markey Park.

Our Division 4 team were beaten 4-12(24) to 0-9(9) by Dundalk Gaels on Tuesday evening under flood lights in DKIT, at 8pm.

Naomh Fionnbarra/Lannleire U-14 combination played their 1st league game on Wednesday 5th of April against St Nicholas.
Result 6-7 to 1-10. The lads were down 4 points and came back to win by 12 points in the last 10 mins of the game! Next games in U14 Division 3 – Round 2: weds: 12-04-17 – Newtown Blues @Newtown Blues, Round 3: weds: 03-05-17 – St Josephs @ John Markey Park, Round 4: weds: 10-05-17 – Oliver Plunketts @ Pairc Oilibhear.

There are plenty of upcoming fixtures this week for supporters and players alike, please come along and support our teams if you can make it. For more fixtures details please see local press, Louth and Proud website and the Louth GAA website.

Hard luck to the Louth Senior team after being beaten by Tipperary in the Division 3 League Final in croke Park on Saturday.

Club Membership is now due for renewal for 2017 with the following options available: Adult Membership €50, Juvenile Membership (up to U-18) €40, Family Membership (2 Adults & 2 Children) €130, Social Membership (non voting) €30, All members of Club Barrs 2015-2017 are automatically entitled to Adult Membership. Please feel free to contact a committee member if you wish to join or if you have any further questions.
The club is hosting a Medium Night with Calirvoyant Brendan O’Friel in the near future. Please watch out for further details for what should be a great night.

Supporter’s of the club can now buy club gear directly from the O’Neills Website. Please see the attached link
https://www.oneills.com/shop-by-team/gaa/ireland/naomh-fionnbarra-gfc.html

A special mention must go to former club player and member Benny Devlin who was honoured recently at a lunch in Athlone to celebrate the work of volunteers in the Community Games organisation. Benny was involved in introducing the Community Games to Co. Louth and has remained heavily involved at various levels up to today as he is currently the President of Louth Community Games. Well done Benny!

The club would like to express its deepest sympathy to the families of Paddo (Patrick) Devlin, Clogherhead, formerly of Togher, Tommy Butterly, Port and Joanne Halpenny, Dromiskin, formerly of An Rian, Annagassan. May they Rest In Peace.

Cooley Kickhams U10 boys team had their first outing of the year Monday evening last (April 10th) against Cuchulainn Gaels in Omeath. Everyone played really well considering it was their first game of the season and the difficult wet conditions on the night.

U14 Div1
Cooley Kickhams won this game 9-18 to 2-06. at half time it was 4-10 to 1-02 in favour of Cooley Kickhams.

Dont forget folks we are in to our final two weeks of rehearsals of Strictly Come Dancing which is on in the Barbican on the 22nd of April at 7.30pm.It
promises to be a great night so please please support these dancers who are doing a wonderful job for our club.Tickets are E20 per adult E10 per student/child and E50 2ad2ch.Tickets will be on sale down the field each night this week.For tickets please contact 086-8140876 AND 087-7951477.

Fri. 7th
Senior Ladies V Cooley @7.30pm HOME
Louth Coaching and Games are running a Young Whistlers aimed at 15/16 year olds with aspirations of becoming referees. The course is open to both hurling and football and will take place in Darver centre of Excellence on Saturday 22nd of April from 10am-12pm and from 6.30pm-8.30pm on Wednesday 26th attendance on both days is compulsory. To reserve a place on the course please email Brianog.corr.gpo.louth@gaa.ie before Wednesday 19th of April.
Looking for some fun over Easter- join us for a GAA camp.
Easter Camps for 2017 in Newtown Blues.
Places can be booked online via our Eventbrite page at the following link below:
http://louthcandg.eventbrite.com/
Places are limited with Online Registration ending on Thursday 13th April at 12 noon. The camp runs for 3 days Tues. 18th April – Thurs. 20th April 10am-2pm.
Newtown Blues strictly come dancing 22nd of April 2017 in the barbican :
This promises to be a night of fun with many surprises throughout the night.
Tickets cost €20 adults and €10 for children,-and family tickets €50 for 2 adults and 2 children.Get behind the club and all these dancers that are practicing hard to win your votes.